Saturday, January 18, 2014

I recently installed PostgreSQL 9.3 using MacPorts. I know some of you use HomeBrew but I still have enough things installed using MacPorts, that work and upgrade well, that I'm still in the MacPorts camp. MacPorts installed PostgreSQL OK, but getting the installation initialized and running took a few hours on a Saturday. Here is a shell script to summarize what finally worked for me.